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Hyperscale Heat Wave

Data Centers Consume Massive Amounts of Energy

ABSTRACT

Data centers have become the backbone of the global economy from the server rooms that power small organizations to the large enterprise data centers hosting enormous server and storage farms. The world’s data centers now consume almost as much energy as Spain. The emerging and enormous hyper-scale data centers are relatively few and currently represent a relatively small fraction of all data center energy consumption in the United States, but they are quickly replacing thousands of smaller data centers.

About Fred Moore

Fred Moore founded Horison Information Strategies in Boulder, Colorado, a data storage industry analyst and consulting firm that specializes in keynote speaking, executive briefings, marketing strategy, and business development for end-users and storage hardware and software suppliers.